Photography Inspiring Children in Conservation
Building Capacity for Primate Conservation
Photography Inspiring Children in Conservation
Building Capacity for Primate Conservation
Kathy West, has over 30 years of nationally recognized expertise in designing, implementing and teaching unique youth education programs for education organizations. She has successfully designed, illustrated and written children’s activity workbooks for science education, including for primate conservation. She has also conducted scientific field research with wild nonhuman primates as well as done extensive international travel. A wildlife…
Ambodiforaha students discovering a large “walking stick” PICC Session Feb. 2021. Photo by Pascal Elison. Returning to eager children and heavy rains in the village of Ambodiforaha, PICC teacher Pascal Elison came prepared with new learning materials and notebooks for the students that had participated in the July 2020 mini-PICC session. The focus of this new session was conservation issues; how the students…
Ambodiforaha village, Madagascar Project update; July 13, 2020 In late June, 2020, as PICC Team member Pascal Elison headed out from Maroantsetra on the long ocean boat ride and hike to the village of Ambodiforaha, he was a little worried that the children would not want to participate in the PICC program or have any interest in the forest during…
Walk in a lowland forest in Suriname and you’ll hear an extraordinary symphony of birds, monkeys and insects. Orchids drape from the branches, dragonflies lite on branches, and colorful jacamar, woodstar and tanager birds flit in the tangled shade. Ancient lianas form twisted patterns in their loops and curves down to the dense understory which conceals jaguars and pumas, and…